Improvement in vegetable-cutter



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tlnitell guaine Letters Patent No. 94,600, dated September 7 1869.

IMPROVEMENT' IN VEG-ETABLE-QUTTER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the samu- To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, R. Hmmnwnv, of New Cassel,

in the county of Fond du Lac, and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and improved Vegetable Gutter; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and' exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and efficient machine for cutting roots, vegetables, Sac., for feeding animals.

The inventiouconsists in the application on a suitable beneh, and between the table thereof, having transverse fixed knives across a passage through it, and a hopper above, of a slide, provided with a lateral two edged knife, cutting both ways, and a series of knives below the said' double-edged cutter, which receive the slices therefrom, cutting them into smaller pieces,which are again cut by the tixed 'knives in the table below. The said slide is arranged to bc worked either by one or two persons.

Figure l represents a longitudinal section of my improved. cutter, and

Figure 2 represents a transverse section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. i

A represents the table;

B, the slide; and

C, the hopper.

The said slide carries a two-edged cutter, D, arranged across it, to cnt, when moving either way, the vegetables resting on the slide into slices.

E represents a gang cf thin cutters arranged in theslide at right angles to the cutter D, so as to receive the slices made by it, which slices are forced down upon the said cutters E by the action of the inclined sides of the cutter 1), and thereby c'ut into smaller pieces, which, on emerging below, encounter the fixed cutters F to be again cut. A i

G represents stops at the end of the movement of the cnt-ter I), to prevent the escape of t-hc pieces thereat. l

This apparatus is very simple in construction, and calculated to`eut the vegetables very fine, and in a manner to bc done without much labor.

Having thus described my invention,

' I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 4 Patent'- i v,

The combination, with the bench A and hopper C,

of the sliding cutters D E, iixed cutters F, and stops 

